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[Treepol]

Here is a list of over 300 books about, or set in Africa.

I've read 95% of these and own about 20% and I'm working hard to increase my ownership %!

I will update this every 3-6 months as I discover other African titles.





Adamson, George - Bwana Game - Memoir - Kenya

Adamson, George - My pride and Joy Memoir - Kenya - Meru

Adamson, Joy - Born Free Lions - Kenya - Shaba

Adamson, Joy - Forever free - Lions

Adamson, Joy T-he Searching spirit - Memoir - Kenya

Adamson, Joy - Shaba -Leopards - Kenya

Adamson, Joy - The Spotted sphinx - Cheetah - Kenya

Allison, Peter - Don't look behind you, but… - Memoir - Botswana - Moremi

Allison, Peter Whatever you do, don't run Memoir Botswana - Moremi

Anthony, Lawrence - Babylon's Ark - Memoir - South Africa - Kwazulu Natal

Anthony, Lawrence - The Elephant whisperer - Memoir South Africa - Kwazulu Natal

Anthony, Lawrence - The Last rhinos - Memoir - South Africa - Kwazulu Natal

Arruda, Suzanne - Mark of the lion - Fiction - Kenya

Arruda, Suzanne - Stalking ivory - Fiction - Kenya - Marsabit NP

Attenborough, David - The Trials of life - Wildlife

Attwater, Helem - My Gorilla journey - Gorillas - Congo

Atwood, Melinda - Jambo Mama - Memoir - Kenya

Bakkes, Chris - In bushveld and desert : a gameranger's life - Memoir - Namibia

Balows, Scott - Tales from Tanzania - Memoir - Tanzania

Bartels, W - Vamos : the story of a boat - Memoir - Zimbabwe-Zambia

Batrus, Carol - When elephants fly : one woman's jouney from Wall Street to Zululand - Memoir - South Africa - Kwazulu Natal

Beard, Peter - The End of the game - Wildlife

Bell, Gavin - Somewhere over the rainbow - Travel - South Africa

Bennun, David - Tick bite fever Memoir Kenya - Nairobi

Blake, Philippa - Heat of the moment - Fiction - Kenya

Blixen, Karen - Out of Africa - Memoir - Kenya

Bourke, Anthony - A Lion called Christian - Lions - Kenya

Brandt, Nick - On this earth - Photography - East Africa

Bright, Michael - The Pride - Wildlife - Tanzania - Serengeti

Bristow, David - The Scenic splendours of southern Africa - Photography Africa, Southern

Brownlee, Nick - Bait - Fiction - Kenya - Mombasa

Brownlee, Nick - Burn - Fiction - Kenya - Mombasa

Brownlee, Nick - Machete - Fiction - Kenya - Mombasa

Brownlee, Nick - Snakepit - Fiction - Somalia - Mombasa

Bryden, Bruce A - Game ranger remembers - Memoir - South Africa - Kruger

Buckle, Catherine - Innocent victims : rescuing the innocent victims of Zimbabwe's farm… - Memoir - Zimbabwe

Bull, Bartle - Safari : a chronicle of adventure - History

Butcher, Tim - River of blood - Travel - Congo

Cain, Kenneth - Emergency sex - Memoir - Somalia

Caputo, Philip - Ghosts of Tsavo : stalking the mystery lions of East Africa - Lions - Kenya - Tsavo

Carberry, Juanita - Child of Happy Valley - Memoir - Kenya

Carr, Norman - Return to the wild - Memoir - Zambia

Chidgey, Jane - Under the baobab tree - Memoir - South Africa - Limpopo

Cillie, Burger - A Pocket guide to Southern African birds - Field guide - Africa, Southern

Clark, June Vendall Starlings laughing Memoir Botswana - Moremi - Okavango

Clutton-Brock, Tim - Meerkat Manor - Meerkats - South Africa

Coates, Frank - Beyond Mombasa - Fiction - Kenya

Coates, Frank - In search of Africa - Fiction - Kenya

Coates, Frank - Roar of the lion - Fiction - Kenya

Coates, Frank - Silence of the Serengeti - Fiction - Kenya - Nairobi

Coates, Frank - Tears of the Maasai - Fiction - Kenya

Cox, Richard - Eclipse - Fiction - Kenya

D'Souza, Tony - Whiteman - Fiction - Ivory Coast

Dau, John - God grew tired of us - Memoir - Sudan-Kenya

David, Saul - Zulu Hart - Fiction - South Africa - Natal

Davies, Caitlin - A Place of reeds - Memoir - Botswana

Dinesen, Isak - Out of Africa - Memoir - Kenya

Drayson, Nicholas - A Guide to the birds of East Africa - Fiction - Kenya

Dugard, Martin - Into Africa - History - Tanzania

Ecott, Tim - Stealing water : a secret life in an African city - Memoir - South Africa - Johannesburg

Elkins, Caroline - Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya - History - Kenya

Estes, Richard T- he Safari companion - Wildlife

Evans, Tenniel - Don't walk in the long grass - Memoir - Kenya

Fitzjohn, Tony - Born Wild - Memoir - Kenya - Kora; Tanzania

Fossey, Diane - Guerillas in the mist - Memoir - Rwanda

Fox, James - White mischief - History - Kenya

Fuller, Alexandra - Don't lets go to the dogs tonight - Memoir - Zimbabwe

Fuller, Alexandra - Scribbling the cat - Travel - Zambia - Mozambique

Fuller, Alexandra - Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness - Memoir - Zambia-Zimbabwe

Gall, Sandy - George Adamson : Lord of the lions - Biography - Kenya

Gallmann, Kuki - African nights - Memoir - Kenya - Laikipia

Gallmann, Kuki I dreamed of Africa - Memoir - Kenya - Laikipia

Gallmann, Kuki Night of the lions - Memoir - Kenya - Laikipia

Gavron, Jeremy - The Last elephant - Travel - East and Southern Africa

Godwin, Peter - Mukiwa : a white boy in Africa - Memoir - Zimbabwe

Godwin, Peter - When the crocodile eats the sun - Memoir - Zimbabwe

Godwin, Peter - The Fear : the last days of Robert Mugabe - Memoir - Zimbabwe

Goodall, Jane - In the shadow of man Memoir - Tanzania - Gombe - Chimpanzees

Goodall, Jane - My friends the wild chimpanzees - Memoir - Tanzania - Gombe - Chimpanzees

Goodall, Jane Through a window : my thirty years with the chimpanzees - Memoir - Tanzania - Gombe - Chimpanzees

Gordon, Nicholas - Ivory knights - Memoir - Tanzania

Gowdy, Barbara - The White bone - Fiction - Elephants - Africa

Greaves, Nick - Hwange : retreat of the elephants - Wildlife - Zimbabwe

Griffin, Scott - My heart is Africa : a flying adventure - Memoir

Grzimek, Bernard - Serengeti shall not die - Memoir - Tanzania - Serengeti

Guhrs, Vic - The Trouble with Africa : stories from a safari camp - Memoir - Zambia - South Luangwa

Haigh, Jerry - The Trouble with lions Memoir - Kenya - Uganda

Hamilton, Iain Douglas - Among the elephants - Elephants - Tanzania - Lake Manyara

Harden, Blaine - Africa : dispatches from a fragile continent - Memoir - Africa

Harper, Beverley - Echo of an angry God - Fiction - Malawi

Harper, Beverley - Edge of the rain - Fiction

Harper, Beverley - Footprints of the lion - Fiction - South Africa

Harper, Beverley -The Forgotten Sea - Fiction - Mauritius

Harper, Beverley -The Jackal's dance - Fiction - Namibia

Harper, Beverley - People of Heaven - Fiction - Botswana

Harper, Beverley - Shadows in the grass - Fiction - South Africa - Natal

Harper, Beverley - Storms over Africa Fiction - South Africa - Natal

Hart, Susanne - Life with Daktari - Memoir

Hartley, Adrian - The Zanzibar chest - Memoir - Africa

Helfer, Ralph - Modoc : the true story of the greatest elephant that ever lived

Hemingway, Ernest - The Snows of Kiliminjaro - Fiction - Tanzania

Henderson, Annette - Wild spirit - Memoir - Gabon

Henderson, Sally Ivory moon Memoir Namibia - Hoanib River area

Henderson, Sally Silent footsteps Memoir Zimbabwe

Hillaby, John - Journey to the Jade Sea - Travel - Kenya - Lake Turkana

Hiltzik, Michael - A Death in Kenya - True crime - Kenya - Masaai mara

Hofmann, Corinne - Back from Africa - Memoir - Kenya

Hofmann, Corinne - Reunion in Barsaloi - Memoir - Kenya

Hofmann, Corinne - The White Masai - Memoir - Kenya

Holgate, Kingsley - Africa : in the footsteps of the great explorers - Travel - Africa

Holman, Michael - Last orders at Harrods - Fiction - Kenya - Kireba

Hope, Christopher - My mother's lovers - Fiction

Hunter, Luke - Cats of Africa - Wildlife - Africa

Huxley, Elspeth - The Mottled lizard - Memoir - Kenya

Huxley, Elspeth - The Flame trees of Thika - Memoir - Kenya

Huxley, Elspeth - Murder on safari - Fiction - Kenya

Huxley, Elspeth - Pioneers - Memoir - Kenya

Innes, Hammond - The Big footprints - Fiction Africa, Eastern

Jackman, Brian - The Marsh lions - Wildlife - Kenya - Masai Mara

Jeal, Tim - Livingston - Biography - Africa

Johnston, Frank - Malawi : the warm heart of Africa - Travel - Malawi

Joubert, Beverly - Hunting with the moon - Photography - Lions - Botswana - Savuti

Joubert, Beverly - Relentless enemies - Photography - Botswana

Joubert, Dereck - The Africa diaries : an illustrated memoir of life in the bush - Memoir - Botswana

Kann, Wendy - Casting with a fragile thread - Memoir - Zimbabwe

Kay, June - Okavango - Memoir - Botswana - Moremi - Okavango

kay, June - Starlings laughing : a memoir of Africa - Memoir

Kay, June - Wild Eden - Memoir - Botswana - Moremi - Okavango

Kay, June -The thirteenth moon - Memoir - Botswana - Moremi - Okavango

Kaye, M. M. - Death in Kenya - Fiction - Crime - Kenya

Kaye, M. M. - Death in Zanzibar - Fiction - Crime - Tanzania - Zanzibar

Kaye, M. M. - Trade winds - Fiction - Tanzania - Zanzibar

Keane, Fergal - All of these people - History - Rwanda

Keating, Barbara - A Durable fire - Fiction - Kenya

Keating, Barbara - Blood sisters - Fiction - Kenya

Keating, Barbara - In borrowed light - Fiction - Kenya

Keene-Young, Robyn - Backseat safari - Travel - Africa, Southern

Kenyatta, Jomo - Facing Mt. Kenya - Anthropology - Kenya

Lamb, Christina - The Africa House - Biography - Zambia

Lamb, Christina - The House of stone : the true story of a family divided in war torn Zimbabwe - Biography - Zimbabwe

Lambkin, David - The Hanging tree - Fiction - Kenya

Lang, Graham - Lettah's gift - Fiction - Zimbabwe

Latham, Aaron - The Frozen leopard : hunting my dark heart in Africa - Travel - Kenya, Rwanda

Leakey, Richard - Wildlife wars - Memoir - Kenya

Lessing, Doris - African laughter - Travel - Zimbabwe

Liebenberg, Lauren - The Voluptuous delights of peanut butter and jam - Fiction - Zimbabwe

Lovell, Mary - Straight on till morning - Biography - Kenya

Lovell, Nikki - We are one village - Memoir - Uganda

Luard, Nicholas The Wildlife parks of Africa Travel Africa

Maathai, Wangari - Unbowed : one woman's story - Memoir - Kenya

Malathronas, John - Rainbow Diary - Travel - South Africa

Mandela : the authorised portrait - Photography - South Africa

Marciano, Francesca - Rules of the wild - Fiction - Kenya - Nairobi

Markham, Beryl - West with the night - Memoir - Kenya

Marshall, Peter - Around Africa : from the Pillars of Hercules to the Strait of Gibraltar - Travel - Africa

Matson, Tammie - Dry water - Memoir - Namibia

Matson, Tammie - Elephant dance - Memoir - Namibia

Matthiesen, Peter - African silences - Travel - Elephants - Senegal - Gambia

Matthiesen, Peter - Sand rivers -Travel Tanzania - Selous

Matthiesen, Peter -The Tree where man was born - Travel

McQuillan, Karen - The Cheetah chase - Fiction - Kenya

McQuillan, Karen - Deadly safari - Fiction - Kenya

McQuillan, Karen - Elephant's graveyard - Fiction - Kenya

Meldrum, Andrew - Now we have hope : a memoir of Zimbabwe - Memoir - Zimbabwe

Meredith, Martin - Diamonds, gold and war : the making of South Africa - History - South Africa

Meyer, Deon - 7 days - Fiction - South Africa

Meyer, Deon - Blood safari - Fiction - South Africa

Meyer, Deon - Dead at daybreak - Fiction - South Africa

Meyer, Deon - Dead before dying - Fiction - South Africa

Meyer, Deon - Devil's peak - Fiction - South Africa

Meyer, Deon - Heart of the hunter - Fiction - South Africa

Meyer, Deon - Thirteen hours - Fiction - South Africa - Cape Town

Meyer, Deon -Trackers - Fiction - South Africa

Miller, Candi - Kalahari Passage - Fiction - South Africa - Kalahari - Bushmen

Miller, Candi - Salt and honey - Fiction - South Africa - Kalahari - Bushmen

Mills, Gus - Hyena nights and Kalahari days - Memoir - South Africa - Kalahari

Monbiot, George - No man's land : an investigative journey through Kenya and Tanzania - Travel - Kenya - Tanzania

National Audubon Society - A Field guide to African wildlife - Field guide

Nicole, Christopher Happy Valley Fiction Kenya

Nunn, Malla - A Beautiful place to die - Fiction - South Africa - Natal??

Nunn, Malla - Let the dead lie - Fiction - South Africa - Natal??

Nunn, Malla - Silent valley - Fiction - South Africa - Natal??

O'Hanlon, Redmond - Conjo Journey - Travel - Congo

Orford, Margie - Blood rose - Fiction - Namibia - Walvis Bay

Orford, Margie - Daddy's Girl - Fiction - South Africa - Cape Town

Orford, Margie - Gallows hill - Fiction - South Africa - Cape Town

Orford, Margie - Like clockwork - Fiction - South Africa - Cape Town

Osborne, Frances - The Bolter : Idina sackville… - Biography - Kenya

Owens, Mark and Delia - Cry of the Kalahari - Memoir - Botsawna - Kalahari

Owens, Mark and Delia - Eye of the elephant - Memoir Z- ambia - North Luangwa

Owens, Mark and Delia - Secrets of the savannah - Memoir

Packer, Craig - Into Africa - Memoir - Lions - Tanzania

Park, Tony - African dawn - Fiction - Zimbabwe

Park, Tony - African sky - Fiction - Zimbabwe

Park, Tony - Delta - Fiction - Botswana

Park, Tony - Far horizon - Fiction

Park, Tony - Ivory - Fiction

Park, Tony - Safari - Fiction

Park, Tony - Silent predator - Fiction - South Africa - Mozambique

Park, Tony - Zambezi - Fiction

Paton, Alan - Cry, the beloved country - Fiction - South Africa

Payne, Katy - The Sound of Thunder Elephants - Memoir

Patterson, Bruce - The Lions of Tsavo - Lions - Kenya - Tsavo

Peek, Bookey - All the way home - Memoir - Zimbabwe

Peek, Bookey - Wild honey : more stories from an African wildlife sanctuary - Memoir - Zimbabwe

Pifer, Drury - Innocents in Africa - Biography - South Africa

Pincott, Sharon - The Elephants and I : pursuing a dream in troubled Zimbabwe - Memoir - Zimbabwe - Hwange

Pitman, Dick - A Wild life : adventures of an accidental conservationist in Africa - Memoir - Zimbabwe

Poliza, Michael - Africa Photography - Africa, Southern

Poole, Joyce - Coming of age with elephants - Memoir - Elephants - Kenya - Amboseli

Randall, Will - Botswana time - Memoir - Botswana

Read, David - Barefoot over the Serengeti - Memoir - Tanzania

Ricciardi, Lorenzo - African rainbow : across Africa by boat - Travel - Congo - Tanzania

Ricciardi, Lorenzo - The Voyage of the Mir-rel-la - Travel - East Africa

Ricciardi, Mirella - Vanishing Africa - Photography - Kenya

Ricciardi, Mirella - African saga - Memoir - Kenya

Ricciardi, Mirella - African visions : the diary of an African photographer - Memoir - Kenya

Richardson, Kevin - Part of the pride - Memoir - South Africa

Ridgeway, Rick - Shadow of Kiliminjaro - Travel - Kenya - Tanzania

Rogers, Douglas - The Last resort - Memoir - Zimbabwe

Root, Alan - Ivory, apes and peacocks - Memoir - Kenya-Tanzania

Ross, Mark - A Dangerous beauty - Memoir Uganda - Bwindi

Rouse, Andy - Animal tales : the adventures of wildlife photographer - Memoir

Ruark, Robert - Uhuru - Fiction - Kenya

Ruark, Robert - Something of value - Fiction - Kenya

Ruark, Robert - The Honey badger - Fiction - Kenya

Rusesabagina, Paul - An Ordinary man - Memoir - Rwanda

Russell, Alec - Big men, little people - Memoir - Africa

Salza, Alberto - Kenya - Photography - Kenya

Sandham, Fran - Traversa - Travel - Namibia, Zambia, Tanzania etc

Sapolsky, Robert - A Primate's memoir - Memoir - Baboons - Kenya

Schmiedt, David - Are we there yet? - Memoir - South Africa

Scholes, Katherine - The Hunter's wife - Fiction - Tanzania

Scholes, Katherine - Lioness Fiction - Fiction - Tanzania

Scholes, Katherine -The Rain queen - Fiction - Tanzania

Scott, Jonathan - The Leopard's Tale - Wildlife - Kenya - Masai Mara

Scott, Jonathan - Big cat Diary : Leopard - Wildlife - Kenya - Masai Mara

Scott, Jonathan - Big cat Diary : Cheetah - Wildlife - Kenya - Masai Mara

Scott, Jonathan - Big cat Diary : Lion - Wildlife - Kenya - Masai Mara

Scott, Jonathan - Lions - Wildlife - Kenya - Masai Mara

Scott, Jonathan - Mara - Serengeti : a photographer's paradise - Wildlife - Kenya - Masai Mara -Tanzania - Serengeti

Scott, Jonathan - The Great migration - Wildlife - Tanzania - Serengeti

Scott, Robyn - Twenty chickens for a saddle - Memoir - Botswana

Seal, Mark - Wildflower : the Joan Root story - Biography - Kenya - Lake Naivasha

Sheldrick, Daphne - An African love story Memoir Kenya

Sheldrick, Daphne - Orphans of Tsavo Memoir Kenya - Tsavo

Sheldrick, Daphne - The Tsavo story Memoir Kenya - Tsavo

Sherr, Lynn - Tall blondes - Wildlife - Giraffes

Sisia, Gemma - St Jude's - Memoir - Tanzania - Arusha

Smith, Alexander McCall - Precious Ramotswe series - Fiction - Botswana

Smith, Julian - Crossing the heart of Africa - Travel - Cape Town - Cairo

Smith, Roger - Dust devils - Fiction - South Africa

Smith, Roger - Mixed blood - Fiction - South Africa

Smith, Roger - Wake up dead - Fiction - South Africa

Smith, Wilbur - A Time to die - Fiction

Smith, Wilbur - The Angels weep - Fiction - Zimbabwe

Smith, Wilbur - Assegai - Fiction- Kenya

Smith, Wilbur - Birds of prey - Fiction

Smith, Wilbur - The Blue horizon - Fiction - South Africa

Smith, Wilbur - The Burning shore - Fiction - Namibia

Smith, Wilbur - Cry wolf - Fiction - Ethiopia

Smith, Wilbur - The Dark of the sun - Fiction

Smith, Wilbur -The Diamond hunters - Fiction

Smith, Wilbur - Eagle in the sky - Fiction

Smith, Wilbur - Elephant song - Fiction - Zimbabwe

Smith, Wilbur -The Eye of the tiger - Fiction

Smith, Wilbur - A Falcon flies - Fiction

Smith, Wilbur - Gold mine - Fiction

Smith, Wilbur - Golden fox - Fiction

Smith, Wilbur - Hungry as the sea - Fiction

Smith, Wilbur -The Leopard hunts in darkness - Fiction - Zimbabwe

Smith, Wilbur - Men of men - Fiction

Smith, Wilbur - Monsoon - Fiction - East Africa - Oman

Smith, Wilbur - Power of the sword - Fiction

Smith, Wilbur - Rage - Fiction - South Africa

Smith, Wilbur - Shout at the devil - Fiction -Tanzania

Smith, Wilbur - The Sound of thunder - Fiction - South Africa

Smith, Wilbur - A Sparrow falls - Fiction - South Africa

Smith, Wilbur - The Sunbird Fiction - Historical - Egypt

Smith, Wilbur - Those in peril - Fiction - East Africa

Smith, Wilbur - A Time to die - Fiction - Zimbabwe - Mozambique

Smith, Wilbur - When the lion feeds - Fiction - South Africa - Natal

Smith, Wilbur - Wild justice - Fiction

South Africa, Namibia and Botswana - Photography - Africa, Southern

Spicer, Paul - Temptress : the scandalos life of Alice, Countess de Janze - Biography - Kenya - Wanjohi Valley

Spowers, Rory Three men on a bike : a journey through Africa - Travel - Africa

St John, Lauren - Rainbow's end - Memoir - Zimbabwe

Stanley, Michael - A Carrion death - Fiction - Botswana

Stanley, Michael - A Deadly trade - Fiction - Botswana

Stanley, Michael - Death of the mantis - Fiction - Botswana

Stuart, Chris and Tilde - Birds of Africa - Field guide - Africa

Stuart, Chris and Tilde - Field guide to the larger mammals of Africa - Field guide - Africa

Sybesma, Sherry - Two weeks in a land rover : on safari in Tanzania - Travel - Tanzania - Nothern circuit

Taylor, Robin - African odyssey - Photography - Africa - East and South

Theroux, Paul - Dark star safari - Travel - Africa

Thesiger, Wilfred - Visions of a nomad - Photography - Kenya

Thompson, Gareth - The Guide's guide to guiding

Tompkinson, Michael - Michael Tompkinson's Kenya - Photography - Kenya

Trzebinski, Errol - Silence will speak - Biography - Kenya

Turner, Myles - My Serengeti years - Memoir - Tanzania - Serengeti

Van Wyk, Chris - Shirley, goodness and mercy - Memoir - South Africa

Varty, John - Nine lives :memoirs of a maverick conservationist - Memoir - South Africa - Londolozi

Waugh, Daisy - A Small town in Africa - Memoir - Kenya - Isiolo

Western, David - In the dust of Kilimanjaro - Memoir - Kenya - Amboseli

Wheeler, Sara - Too close to the sun : the life and times of Denys Finch Hatton - Biography - Kenya

Younghusband, Peter - Every meal a banquet, every night a honeymoon - Memoir - Africa

[Sangeeta]

Oh, what a treasure trove, Pol. I am ruined!

[Atravelynn]

Thank you for this tremendous effort!

[armchair bushman]

amazing that you own and have read SO many of those!!

Quick correction though.... Out of Africa was technically written by Isak Dinesen, not Karen Blixen (same diff, I know).

shoot me now.